# Cuts, lacerations at Deep East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016065828` · 6/29/2016 · SAN AUGUSTINE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple head locations
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Electric parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
## Employer
- **Name:** Deep East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- **Location:** 880 Hwy 21 East, SAN AUGUSTINE, TEXAS, 75972
- **NAICS:** 221121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were loading regulators onto a truck for delivery when the lifting cable on their digger truck broke causing the regulator to fall. When the regulator fell, it hit a crate and rolled striking an employee's head. The employee suffered three lacerations to the head that required 35 staples and seven stiches. The employee was hospitalized.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*